My Favourite Traditional Lemon Bars Recipe Pleasure the Baker

When life palms you lemons, make lemon bars! This lemon bar recipe is the proper means so as to add a chew of sunshine to the day. These bars boast a buttery and evenly spiced shortbread crust, and a creamy easy lemon filling that’s the proper mixture of tangy and candy. Take pleasure in a sq. (or two) of those my favourite lemon bars and brighten up your day/week/month. They’re that good!

wider shot of lemon bars stacked on a plate with a bite taken out of one lemon bar

There’s an previous Wilson household cookbook that I laid declare to early in my baking days. It’s a kind of spiral sure, church-compiled cookbooks that doesn’t fairly lay flat and bunches on the seams. I took to this guide for all of it’s church girl baking knowledge, leaving dates and notes alongside every recipe I attempted.

By far essentially the most butter stained web page on this guide is the recipe Lemon Squares. They have been easy sufficient for a younger Pleasure the Baker to make on her personal however like… a dessert with layers? A number of steps? I felt like a toddler baking prodigy. I used to be actually within the kitchen doin’ somthin’.

In the present day’s recipe continues our month of CLASSIC BAKES, taking it again to that floppy previous cookbook. Right here’s my very favourite basic lemon bars recipe. True to its roots, with somewhat further lemon and spice.

ingredients for lemon bars recipe

Table of Contents

Listed here are the components you’ll want for my Traditional Lemon Bars recipe:

• recent lemons are important for lemon bars. Skip the jarred lemon juice. You’ll need the tartness of recent squeezed lemon juice together with lemon zest from the skins

• unsalted butter, at room temperature

• massive eggs

• granulated sugar

• all-purpose flour

• cornstarch

• sea salt or kosher salt

• floor coriander, optionally available however beautiful

• powdered sugar

We’ll begin this candy little lemon dessert within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. If the considered dragging the mixer from its house within the cupboard onto the counter high is simply an excessive amount of, I get it – a medium bowl with a handheld electrical mixer will do the blending simply as effectively.

Mix flour, sugar, softened butter, salt, coriander (my favourite delicate balancing spice for citrus), and lemon zest. A lot lemon taste is hiding out within the zest, I like to double down on its powers for each the shortbread crust and the lemon filling.

The shortbread crust combination can be slightly shaggy and really feel heavy with butter – that might be appropriate.

Put together the baking pan by first lining two sides with parchment paper. Enable the parchment to come back up two sides of the pan. These are little handles that may make the baked lemon bars simpler to elevate and take away from the pan after they’re baked.

I choose metallic pans over a glass pan for this lemon bars recipe. A metallic pan will warmth the shortbread crust sooner, crisping the sides of the buttery crust earlier than it has an opportunity to get soggy.

Press the crust into the ready pan and set it off to bake whilst you assemble the lemon filling.

The lemon filling is an easy combination of eggs, sugar, lemon zest (we love her), flour and cornstarch (to assist set the curd), and a beneficiant pour of recent lemon juice. Whisk to mix. It’s actually that straightforward.

pouring lemon filling on top of baked crust for lemon bars

The par-baked crust can be simply golden across the edges and barely wrinkled throughout the highest. It gained’t be completely cooked via and that’s precisely proper. Pour the lemon curd filling over the nice and cozy buttery shortbread crust and pop all of it again within the oven to bake till the filling is about.

You’ll know the lemon bars are cooked via and set when the highest jiggles barely however doesn’t have wave like jiggles. Waves imply the bars want extra time within the oven. A stable jiggle means it’s finished!

Enable the bars to chill utterly earlier than slicing. You’ll be able to even velocity up the method by sliding the pan into the fridge to fast chill the bars. Use a pointy knife to chop the cooled lemon bars into squares.

We will’t name these lemon bars with no beneficiant dusting of powdered sugar earlier than serving.

Professional Tip: If you happen to’re taking these lemon bars to potlucks or picnics, dust them with non-melting powdered sugar as an alternative of typical powdered sugar which may, over time, disappear by soaking into the bars.

two lemon bars stacked on top of each other on a plate surrounded by other lemon bars

These actually are my finest lemon bars – principally basic with a delicate trace of spice and an unbelievable quantity of lemon taste. For somewhat twist, add poppy seeds and make Lemon Poppy Seed Bars, and for a gluten-free model attempt these Almond Flour Lemon Raspberry Bars.

Go away your questions, feedback, and price the recipe beneath! Completely satisfied baking, associates! xo